Thornton v. Eubanks

Mrs. Agnes Thornton Eubanks instituted suit in trover against Mrs. H. H. Thornton, to recover for the alleged conversion of a number of pictures as the property of the plaintiff. The defendant admitted possession and the plaintiff’s title to the pictures but asserted a lien for charges for keeping the pictures for the plaintiff, and denying a conversion.

While the defendant testified that the pictures were turned over to her by the plaintiff, who asked the defendant to keep the pictures for the plaintiff while the plaintiff, who was the defendant’s sister-in-law, was in Florida, but that there…